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Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer recently announced his candidacy for the U.S. 5th
Congressional District and will compete with Representative Martin Sabo for
the DFL endorsement. He is the author of numerous articles and books on faith, hunger, the arms
race and U.S.
foreign policy.His books include Hunger
for Justice:the Politics of Food
and Faith (Orbis Books, 1980), The Politics of Compassion (Orbis
Books, 1986), War Against The Poor:Low
Intensity Conflict and Christian Faith (Orbis Books, 1989), Brave New
World Order:Must We Pledge
Allegiance (Orbis Books, 1992), Families Valued:Parenting and Politics for the Good of All Children (Friendship
Press, 1996), School of Assassins (Orbis Books, 1997), his first novel, Harvest
of Cain (
EPICA
, 2001), Jesus against Christianity:Reclaiming
the Missing Jesus (Trinity Press International, 2001), School of
Assassins:Guns, Greed and
Globalization (Orbis Books, 2001), and, Is Religion Killing Us? Violence
in the Bible and the Quran (Trinity Press International, 2003).Jack’s most recent books are Worship
in the Spirit of Jesus: Theology, Liturgy, and Songs without Violence coauthored
with Bret Hesla--Pilgrim Press 2005,
and, Saving Christianity from Empire—Continuum,
2005.

Jack served as National Program Coordinator of the Politics of Food Program with
Clergy & Laity Concerned from 1977 to 1981.He directed the Minnesota-based Hunger and Justice Project for the
American
Lutheran
Church
and
Lutheran
Church
in America
from 1982 to 1984.Jack has
extensive overseas experience including a two-year period when he co-directed a
house of studies in
Managua, Nicaragua
for the Center for Global Education, a program of Augsburg
College.

Jack
is
a graduate of
St.
Olaf
College
in Northfield, Minnesota
where he majored in Political Science, and he received his theological training
at Union Theological Seminary in
New York City
where he earned his Master of Divinity degree. Jack lives in Minneapolis
with his wife and daughters. He
is a member of
Holy
Trinity
Lutheran
Church
and is active in the faith-based Community of St. Martin.